Hi there everyone, just wanted to share a few examples of my first weekend shooting with the Samyang 8MM F/2.8 fisheye. It is every bit as good as all the reviews online and then some. I'm really excited about the possibilities with the lens, here's a few quick RAW edits for you :-

One small suggestion when posting, is to include an empty line between images - gives some breathing room.

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Excellent tip, thanks for that. I did wonder why the pics had appeared all 'joined together' lol. I normally link from Flickr but these we direct uploads so that's probably why I didn't realise about spacing. None of these are de-fished, although I do have the Image Trends Fisheye-Hemi for Photoshop. The shots here are all just edited from RAW with alterations to correct exposure and boost saturation a little bit. They are not cropped at all.

Nice shots!! (Except for third with waterfall, it is overprocessed, rock doesn´t look naturally...),
Distortions are very low with this fisheye, as eno789 said, looks like de-fisheyed..

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thanks, I just realised the third waterfall shot wasn't taken with the Samyang at all ! my mistake. I'm trying to be careful about placing objects in most of the shots to avoid too much obvious distortion unless I really want that look. I will post some defished examples soon of some architecture shots so you can see the difference.

Never knew it's possible to take meaningful pics with a fisheye. Very nice!

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Thanks Ad, I'm glad everyone seems to like them. I was really uncertain about using the Samyang as my only lens for this trip but I wanted to get an idea of what it can and cannot do. I'd read quite a bit about how people use it for portraits and group shots ( the creator of the Fisheye-Hemi appararently shoots weddings with a fisheye ) so I thought I would try it out. I stuck to the idea of keeping the horizon level and avoiding strong lines in the landscape shots and for the close shots of my nephew I was actually much closer than it appears. I took some architecture shots around Auckland yesterday and I tried the Fisheye-Hemi plugin which does seem to do a good job - I'll post some pre and post examples later.

Samyang/Rokinon 8mm F2.8 is a wonderful piece of lens. Samyang claims to have implemented Stereographic projection for this lens. If composed carefully this lens can act as a wonderful UWA lens for NEX.

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